Immune talks with David Peterson and Kim Klonowski from the University of Georgia about their careers, their People, parasites, and plagues podcast, placental malaria immunity, and and how interferons in the thymus affect T cell repertoire selection.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Cindy Leifer, Steph Langel, and Brianne Barker

Guests: David Peterson and Kim Klonowski

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Links for this episode

• MicrobeTV Discord Server
• People, parasites, and plagues podcast
• Placental malaria and circumsporozoite protein-specific immunity (Trends in Parasitology)
• Sterile production of interferons in the thymus affects T cell repertoire selection (Science Immunology)
• Dickson Despommier’s book People Parasites and Plowshares
• Time stamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!

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From the 2024 Society for Leukocyte Biology meeting, Immune talks with Amy Hise about her career in science, her current research using mouse models for investigating fungal immunity and navigating the challenges of being a mom in science.

Hosts: Cindy Leifer and Brianne Barker

Guest: Amy Hise

• MicrobeTV Discord Server
• Mouse model for testing drugs to treat Candida fungal infection
• Inflammasomes in Aspergillosis
• Society for Leukocyte Biology
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Immune 90: Immunology of Injury March 25, 2025

From the 2024 Society for Leukocyte Biology meeting at Michigan State University, home of the Spartans, Immune’s Cindy and Brianne talk with Liz Kovacs and Jim Lederer about their careers, dirty mice, old mice, and immunity during trauma.

Hosts: Cindy Leifer and Brianne Barker

Guests: James Lederer and Elizabeth Kovacs

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• MicrobeTV Discord Server
• Jim Lederer’s Neutrophil trained immunity and Trauma effects on immune cells
• Liz Kovacs’s Aging and lung inflammation and Alcohol effects on burn patients
• Paper on use of “dirty mice” also known as natural immune mice
• Society for Leukocyte Biology
• Time stamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!

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Immune Booster #10 HIV in the brain with Amanda Brown March 18, 2025

From the The Society for Leukocyte Biology 2024 conference at Michigan State University, Cindy and Brianne sit down with Amanda Brown from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine to talk about her career and the research of her laboratory on mechanisms of neuroinflammation in disease, especially during HIV infection.

Hosts: Cindy Leifer and Brianne Barker

Guest: Amanda Brown

• Society for Leukocyte Biology
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Immune discusses how non-neutralizing antibodies can still be protective…intracellularly, and a technically innovative paper that uses Lipstic to label antigen-presenting cells responsible for gut tolerance to food antigens.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Cindy Leifer, Steph Langel, and Brianne Barker

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Links for this episode

• MicrobeTV Discord Server
• Non-neutralizing antibodies protect against CCHFV (Nat Comm)
• APC-T cell interactions drive immune responses to food (Science)
• Time stamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!

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Immune describes the use of bespoke antibodies to characterize immune cell populations in cave nectar bats, and co-option of retrotransposons to activate hematopoietic stem cells and erythropoiesis.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Cindy Leifer, Steph Langel, and Brianne Barker

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Links for this episode

• MicrobeTV Discord Server
• Immune cells in cave nectar bats (Cell Rep)
• Cave nectar bat colony (J Am Asso Lab An Sci)
• Retrotransposons activate erythropoiesis (Science)
• TLRs and ERVs (Immunity)
• Letters read on Immune 88
• Time stamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!

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Immune discusses basophils as regulators of of lung inflammation over space and time, and neoself-antigens as the primary target for autoreactive T cells in human lupus.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Cindy Leifer, Steph Langel, and Brianne Barker

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Links for this episode

• MicrobeTV Discord Server
• Basophils promote asthma (J Exp Med)
• Basophils regulate lung inflammation (J Exp Med)
• Neoself antigens are primary T cell targets in lupus (Cell)
• Time stamps by Jolene. Thanks!

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Immune explains how distinct olfactory mucosal macrophage populations mediate neuronal maintenance and pathogen defense, and failure to establish durable SARS-CoV-2-specific plasma cells in the bone marrow long-lived compartment after mRNA vaccination.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Cindy Leifer, Steph Langel, and Brianne Barker

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Links for this episode

• MicrobeTV Discord Server
• Nasal mucsosal macrophages, neuronal maintenance, and pathogen defense (Mucos Immunol)
• No long lived memory B cells after SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccination (Nat Comm)
• Time stamps by Jolene. Thanks!

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Immune explores the immunological diversity in the upper airway, including memory B and T cells and germinal center B cells, and how chronic infection with Plasmodium parasites leads to development of B cell cancers.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Cindy Leifer, Steph Langel, and Brianne Barker

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Links for this episode

• MicrobeTV Discord Server
• Immune memory diversity in human upper airway (Nature)
• How Plasmodium infection promotes B cell cancers (Cell)
• Time stamps by Jolene. Thanks!

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Petter Brodin joins Immune to discuss immune system adaptation in individuals assigned female sex at birth and undergoing gender affirming testosterone therapy (trans-men).

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Cindy Leifer, Steph Langel, and Brianne Barker

Guest: Petter Brodin

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Links for this episode

• MicrobeTV Discord Server
• Petter Brodin on TWiV 568
• Gender-affirming testosterone treatment (Nature)
• Time stamps by Jolene. Thanks!

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